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Coy Hollywood puts steamy scenes to bed

Nicole Kidman’s sex scenes have not turned The Paperboy into a hit (Anne Marie Fox)

GOODBYE Sharon Stone and torrid sex scenes, hello CGI and special effects.
Hollywood has decided to hang up its dirty raincoat and fill the cinema
screen with giant storms created on computers.

Film makers who once dared to push the censors to the limit with nudity and
sex now find it pays to move the earth with technology instead.

The sex scene — once a staple of movies — is becoming increasingly redundant
because of online porn and a trend for women to choose which films couples
watch, according to new research for the movie industry.

Today’s cinema-goers would now rather see Naomi Watts being swept away by a
tsunami in The Impossible than Meg Ryan faking an orgasm in When Harry Met
Sally.

They prefer to watch Moses cross an artificially divided Red Sea than Stone
uncross her legs in Basic Instinct. Rival versions of the exodus are being
prepared by